Geek Squad Helps Put Child-Porn Trafficker Behind Bars

Rob Williams

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I like Best Buy's Geek Squad service about as much as being forced to use Windows Vista on a 286 with half of a keyboard and a monochrome monitor with an exercise ball as a chair and no beer in the house. But there has to be some good in everything, right? In this case, I do applaud Geek Squad, as they manged to throw a child porn trafficker behind bars for 11 years. Next time you ask yourself, "What kind of idiot uses a service like Geek Squad?", the answer is, "Those who hand over a computer loaded up with child porn".

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It's been a rough week for PC users who get their hard drives serviced at Best Buy. First, the RIAA trained its legal guns on a young woman who had Best Buy swap out the hard drive in her computer, a move they believed was designed to wipe evidence of P2P infringement. Now, a man in Arkansas has just been sentenced to 135 months in jail and a $10,000 fine after a Best Buy tech found child porn on the man's hard drive.

Source: Ars Technica
 

Greg King

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On one hand, society as a whole is better with this person in prison but on the other hand, when does PC repair mean going through a person's PC. I don't understand how Best Buy can get away with this.

I suppose this falls into the "Ends justify the means" category.
 

b1lk1

Tech Monkey
Kinda like bringing in your car for repair with a bail of weed in the trunk too. If you are stupid enough to let someone perform work on your PC when you know there are bad bad things on it, then you are indeed a moron needing 10 years in prison to figure it out.
 

sbrehm72255

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About time the "Theif Squad" did something good, but for the most part they are pretty much worthless IMHO.
 

madstork91

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hrm... i remember something about geeksquad steeling software from some company at one point ant then later getting caught when they were trying to get training in the software...
 
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